Gaizka Mendieta

Where is Gaizka Mendieta now?

A classy box-to-box midfielder, Gaizka Mendieta retired from playing at the end of the 2007/8 season after spending four seasons in the Premier League with Middlesbrough.

Unlucky to be a UEFA Champions League runner-up on two occasions with Valencia, Mendieta was considered as one of the best midfielders in the world in the late 1990’s and was twice named as European Midfielder of the Season.

Although Mendieta’s playing career at Middlesbrough was interrupted by a string of injuries he was part of the team that won the League Cup in 2004 which was the club’s first ever silverware.